Shonda Rhimes admits she kills characters for her own personal gain

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All right, Rhimes. Leave it up to your fans to infer what we will. We have a list of names that we’re willing to speculate might be on Rhimes’ shit list, and their characters definitely suffered for it.

Patrick Dempsey comes immediately to mind, as the death of McDreamy on Grey’s may have been the actual most heartrending thing ever to happen on TV. But Dempsey and Rhimes have been pretty open about his motivations for leaving the show — according to Dempsey, it was just time to move on to other projects.

So how about Columbus Short, whose Scandal character was recently axed? Probably not, since Short openly admitted that his drug addictions were a major contributor to his leaving the show.

Still, Rhimes has given us plenty of other names to wonder about: Mark Sloane, Denny Duquette, George O’Malley and Lexie Grey, played by Eric Dane, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, T.R. Knight and Chyler Leigh, respectively, on Grey’s alone. Then there’s Dylan Minnette’s Jerry Grant on Scandal, or Chris Lowell’s Dell Parker on Private Practice. With a kill-happy showrunner like Rhimes, the possibilities are practically endless.